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Testimony of Yisrael Shemonovitz, born 1922 in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, about his life in Sevlus in the region of Carpathian Ruthenia and in the region of Galicia

Testimony of Yisrael Shemonovitz, born in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia in 1922, regarding his life in Sevlus in the region of Carpathian Ruthenia and in the region of Galicia Life before the war; his mother’s death; living with his uncle; re-annexation of the area to Hungary in 1940; the German occupation in March 1944; deportation to the camp; transfer to forced labor; transfer to the region of Galicia, due to work needs from the Carpathian Ruthenia region; liberation by the Red Army; aliya to Eretz Israel on the “Transylvania” of the Joint Distribution Committee and the Agudath Israel movement in 1945; raising...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rivka (Ovich) Shapira, born in Sacel, Romania, 1929 regarding her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps

Testimony

From an Orthodox family; Hungarian rule, 1940; Deportation from her home to the Dragomiresti Ghetto; burying valuables in the yard; death of her father in the ghetto; deportation on a transport to Auschwitz-Birkenau; separation from her family; quarrying and paving work; insistence on observing religious commandments; selection for work and transfer to Ravensbrueck, October 1944; transfer to the Malchow camp for weapons production; approach of the Red Army and death march; liberation; Move to the Bergen-Belsen DP camp; legal aliya under the auspices of Agudat Israel, 1947.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arye Simcha Perl, born in Petrova, Romania, 1919 regarding being drafted into a Hungarian Army forced labor battalion

Testimony

From a Hasidic family; observing Shabbat and holidays; keeping customs; attends a local school and a heder; the Jewish community; Hamizrachi and Agudat Israel movements; Entry of the Hungarians, late August 1940; anti-Jewish decrees; drafting of men, including the witness into Hungarian Army forced labor battalions; forced labor at the airfield, Hungary; wearing a yellow armband; labor camp life; typhus; liberation, late 1944; Return home; news of the murder of his family in Auschwitz; attempt to locate relatives in Sighet; membership in Agudat Israel; rebuilding life after the war; marriage in Petrova,...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Liana Shoshana Fura Shvartz, born in Vienna, Austria, regarding her experiences in Austria and Czechoslovakia and her aliya to pre-state Israel

Testimony of Liana Shoshana Fura Shvartz, born in Vienna, Austria, regarding her experiences in Austria and Czechoslovakia and her aliya to pre-state Israel Childhood before the war; Anschluss in 1938; Kristallnacht in 1938; attacks; Aryanization of family factory; restrictions; certificate for father for a month; attempt to bring relatives from Hungary; family’s escape to the grandfather’s estate in Sala; receiving certificates as colonial subjects; aliya to pre-state Israel in 1940; absorption.

File Number : 13470

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Feigenblum, born in 1919 in Włocławek, Poland, about his experiences as a member of the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Kalisz, in Warsaw, and in the movement underground in the Soviet Union

Receives a religious education; joins the Hashomer Hatzair movement; lives in a hakhshara (training center) in Kalisz in 1937; Kol Nidre eve in 1939; three Jews murdered; witness escapes to his parents in Warsaw in November 1939; escapes to Wilno and lives there until June 1940; escapes to Tashkent and Samarkand in 1941; membership in the Hashomer Hatzair underground in the Soviet Union in 1941–1944; involved in the affair surrounding Mordechai Rozman, a leader of the underground, who succumbed to NKVD interrogation and surrendered names of underground members; liberation and return to Poland in December 1945;...

File Number : 13553

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters written before the war and sent to Rivka Shapiro in Eretz Israel by her family members in Dobrzyn, including a memoir book written for her by friends and relatives from 1934 until her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936 Rivka Shapira was born in Dobrzyn, Poland, 1915; aliya of Rivka to Eretz Israel without family, with help from an Agudat Israel aliya training "kibbutz"; marriage to Yehoshua Hershel Zvi Shapiro in Jerusalem, 1939.

File Number : 1881

Type of Material : Memoir Book, Letter

Language : Hebrew, Polish, Yiddish

כרמי שרהTestimony of Sara Arzbet Karmi née Yakubovitz, born in 1926 in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, about her experiences in the Mateszalka ghetto, Auschwitz, the Teplice camp, and Theresienstadt

German occupation ensues in 1944; deported to the Mateszalka ghetto in 1944; deported to Auschwitz in 1944; taken to the Teplice camp in 1944; works at an armaments and aircraft manufacturing plant; sent to Theresienstadt in 1945; liberated by Red Army forces in 1945; back to Nyiregyhaza; moves to Budapest and joins an Agudath Israel "kibbutz" in 1946; moves (illegally) to Zagreb; waits approx. two months in 1946; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Knesset Israel under Aliya Bet auspices; deported to the "winter camp" in Cyprus in 1946; marries in 1947; immigrates to Eretz Israel in 1947; adjusts to...

File Number : 13513

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ann Wigoda née Mendelsohn, born in 1932 in Berlin, about her experiences as a girl in Berlin, her escape to Brussels, and her survival in orphanages and convents in Belgium under a false identity

Childhood in Berlin as the Nazis rise to power; escapes with parents to Brussels in 1938 (illegally); life under German occupation in 1940; father arrested and deported to a camp in 1941; mother falls ill and is taken to the Jewish Weisenbeek hospital near Brussels in 1941; witness placed in a residence at a teachers' college in Laeken in 1942 under a false identity; transferred to a convent in Chimay, spends several months there and is evicted in 1942; placed in the Pensiona des Soeurs de St. Vincent de Paul convent in Obourg, Mons Département; lives in the convcent under a false identity until liberation;...

File Number : 13517

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Memoirs of Natan Nute Zinger Ran, born in Berhomet, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences in as a child in the Slidi Ghetto, Mogilev-Podolski, Kishinev and other places

Memoirs of Natan Nute Zinger Ran, born in Berhomet, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences in as a child in the Slidi Ghetto, Mogilev-Podolski, Kishinev and other places Deportation to Transnistria with his family, 1941; Slidi Ghetto life; death of his parents; placed in an orphanage in Mogilev-Podolski, spring 1943; life in children's homes and with foster families in Kishinev, Odessa and Chernovitz. Aliya to Israel, 1948; The file includes: Experiences of his wife, Pnina (Mizrachi) Ran, born in Tiberias, Mandatory Palestine, 1934.

File Number : 8315

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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